This week on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we are discussing the 12-year-old Chinese phenom Yu Zidi (and swimming at the Chinese Nationals), Leon Marchand‘s spicy 4:07 400 IM, and Chris Lindauer going to Stanford.
- 0:00 SwimSwam Breakdown Introduction
- 0:32 12-Year-Old World Champ Qualifier Yu Zidi
- 7:26 Chinese Nationals
- 13:00 Longhorn Elite Invite
- 22:40 Selection Procedure for 2026 Pan Pacific Championships
- 35:18 Chris Lindauer to Stanford to lead the Women’s team
SINK or SWIM
- 41:36 Luka Mijatovic makes the World Champs team?
- 44:28 Leon Marchand breaks his own 400 IM World Record this summer in Singapore?
- 47:43 Yu Zidi wins a medal at World Championships?
Hey Chiefs/Eagles, don’t worry about the ‘25 regular season and playoffs. You automatically qualified for the ‘26 Super Bowl
So Wyatt had a kid? Or you have another sibling! Congrats to Uncle Coleman and to Wyatt!
I disagree with coleman on his point about american swimming, fort lauderdale proves otherwise imho, I also think the guys team will overperform expectations the onky events i would say i am actually scared for the us in is 50-200 breast, and I truly am putting all my faith in mckean at this point to go a 59 low
I was being a bit dramatic. but if I look at it now:
Freestyle, I think we’ve definitely got medal opportunities. Alexy/Guiliano, Hobson, Finke.
Butterfly, we’ve got hope. Dare, Luca, Heilman, Casas.
Medley, Foster, Casas.
Backstroke… ???
Breaststroke… see backstroke.
Relays, I think we still win 4×100 free and take back 4×200 now that Bowman + Texas = infinity stones. Medley will be tight with China.
I think casas and modglin have potential in backstroke if casas races it, I would also be interested to see if urlando might swim backstroke remember he had the 100 back ncaa record in a form that I think was worse than his form now
Urlando back was more UW than anything elae no?